> Most interessting questions were kept unanswered. Does everybody that
> swallows or breathes in tapeworm eggs gets infected by them? Is our immun
> system able to defeat these small suckers or is the defensives actions of
> the larvas always too good? Does washing the greens really help? What are
> the cances of getting infected after having contact with tapeworm eggs?


what do you think ? how our species or any species carrier of tapeworms or
whatever parasites they carry have survived for millions of years .

who is the host that carry parasites considering that any multicellular
organisms is an entire ecosytem ,
 a symbiotic relationship of many species ? ( the guts contains more
organisms than the whole organism contain cells and even the mitochondria ,
the energy plant of the cell is made of a different genetic material than
the cell itself as if it was a"domesticated "bacteria working for the host
.).

how an ecosytem of differents species reach such a state of balance as a
complex organism can achieve for its entire life ?
get rid of the wolfs and you got the whole of his preys becoming a problem
( cancer?) precipating to  the collapse of the whole  system ( for a time
because the means to homeostasis and balance are so primordial to the
creation of life forms that in definitive it all comes back to balance even
if it have to sacrifice the rich diversity of an ecosystem at its climax .).

if you wait for specialists to tell you the answer about the mystery of life
you are set for a big disappointment .
life is not to be analysed, it is something to be gratefull for .

look for a place where you don't need to know .

if you see the forms it takes  as a marvel of incredible achievements , you
will spare yourself lot of useless fears .

More we live by nature's miracles and less we have to worry about having
drifted away from it.

it is just plain luck that you are alive now , considering all the dangers
out there.

nothing personal just questionning  a cultural mindset !

jean-claude